Opinion Stories from November 18, 2022
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Daily Herald opinion: Teaching kids to be climate optimists sets course for a brighter future
Nov 18, 2022 6:05 AM - A Daily Herald editorial applauds schools that give students reasons to believe there will be a brighter future by teaching them how to help make it so. -
Letter: A risk the GOP should considerNov 18, 2022 1:00 AM - A Palatine letter to the editor: Regarding Sunday's front-page article on the GOP getting "shellacked" in the recent election, in part due to the abortion issue:
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Letter: Freedom should not depend on financesNov 18, 2022 1:00 AM - A Wheaton letter to the editor: This summer, I spent time observing bond court in DuPage County. This experience exposed me to what it's like for accused people to go through bond court.
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Republicans need an economic growth agenda
Nov 18, 2022 1:00 AM - After disappointing midterm election results for Republicans, many understandably pin blame on corrosive figures like former President Donald Trump. His losing record is impressive considering his cultlike persona appeal with MAGA voters. If Republicans finally learn to shed Trump and his ilk, it will be a good thing. However, there's another looming issue for Republicans: their policy agenda (if this mishmash deserves such a name). Let's face it, these last few elections weren't contests over conflicting policy visions. Instead, each party did little more than tell voters that they aren't as awful as the other party. Pointing that out is OK but doing so isn't a substantive agenda. Republicans, for instance, were all about how Democrats created inflation and how inflation was terrible for the American people. But Republicans themselves offered no plan to tame inflation. Where are the GOP's plans to control spending? Such control is necessary at the very least for the government to meet its debt-servicing obligations -- which are rising with interest rates -- without fueling inflation further. -
Syndicated columnist Byron York: Trump obsession clouds midterm analysis
Nov 18, 2022 1:00 AM - Syndicated columnist Byron York: Remember when the conventional wisdom was that abortion would be a huge issue in the midterm elections? Then the election came, and a lot of data pointed to the fact that yes, abortion did indeed play a big role.
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